The Eurasia Program has launched a Policy Brief Series, featuring short analysis papers by Eurasia Fellows. The series opens with briefs from 2012 Fellows Brinton Ahlin, Julian Gantt, Hannah Reiss, Igor Rubinov, and David Szakonyi.

December marked the second workshop of the CASS-SSRC Seminar Series on Migration, Social Development and Social Protection. Jointly coordinated by the SSRC Migration Program and China Environment and Health Initiative, the workshop brought together researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and American migration scholars to consider migration policy challenges in China and the United States.

The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) has awarded research grants to twenty-three African scholars and practitioners to support eleven individual and six team projects on peacebuilding and statebuilding in Africa. Based in African universities and research institutions in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, the grantees hold diverse postgraduate degrees and have histories of long-term commitments to peacebuilding on the continent.

In the latest installment of the SSRC's On the Line podcast, Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellow Damion Blake (2011) discusses his work with Jamaica's organized-crime dons.

Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum program director William O'Neillcommented on US violations of international law at Guantánamo Bay prison for Al Jazeera, and program associate Sabrina Stein contributed a chapter titled “The UN and Genocide: A Comparative Analysis of Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia” to The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction (Palgrave, 2012).

Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, provided political analysis of North Korea's satellite program for the National Interest.

Education Research Program director Richard Arumwas quoted in a New York Times article on the value of higher education and named a 2013 RHSU Edu-Scholar in recognition of his substantial contribution to public debates about education.

The Inter-Asia Program is holding an open call for workshop papers for its fourth Conference on Inter-Asian Connections, to be held in Istanbul in October. Workshops will focus on seven different themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and South Asia to East Asia. Applications are due by February 11.

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